NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Cynthia Cook from the Center for International and Strategic Studies about why naval shipbuilding in the U.S. has become so difficult lately.

The centerpiece of the Trump administration’s revamp of the U.S. Navy is the largest surface combatant America will build ...

US President Donald Trump’s announcement of a new class of battleships bearing his name puts a fresh spotlight on a US naval shipbuilding program that has fallen short on delivering the new warships ...

Launching Liberty: U.S. Sailors and Marines stand on the deck of the USS Wasp, an amphibious assault ship, as it passes the Statue of Liberty. The question remains: Can America build ships again?

Is the era of the XXL ship already over? With Celebrity's biggest Edge Class ship, Xcel, coming this November, Royal Caribbean's next super-sized Icon Class ship, Legend of the Seas, set to make its ...

Over the past century, American aircraft carriers have gradually increased in size, typically ranging between 800 and 1,100 feet in length. While the USS Enterprise once held the title of the longest ...

Each New Frontier ship will carry up to 5,400 passengers, putting it squarely in the mega-ship category. That makes it ...